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A serpentine marble inkstand
of circular lobed form, the cover inset with seven specimen lava portrait cameos within gilt metal slips, the undersides with a glazed gouache depicting a view of Vesuvius across the bay of Naples, Italian, circa 1860 -- 5½in. (14cm.) diameter
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